When philosophers address personal identity, they usually explore numerical identity: What are the criteria for a personâs continuing existence? When nonphilosophers address personal identity, they often have in mind narrative identity: Which characteristics of a particular person are especially salient to her self-conception? This book develops accounts of both senses of identity, arguing that both are normatively important, and is unique in its exploration of a wide range of issues in bioethics through the lens of identity. Defending a biological view of our numerical identity and a framework for understanding narrative identity, David DeGrazia investigates various issues for which considerations of identity prove critical: the definition of death; the authority of advance directives in cases of severe dementia; the use of enhancement technologies; prenatal genetic interventions; and certain types of reproductive choices.Human Identity and Bioethics demonstrates the power of personal identity theory to illuminate issues in bioethics as they bring philosophical theory to life.
1. Do Christians need souls?: theological and biblical perspectives on human nature 2. What does science say about human nature?: physics, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience 3. Did my neurons make me do it?: reductionism, morality, and the problem of free will 4. What are the philosophical challenges?: human distinctives, divine action, and personal identity.
Within Western political philosophy, the rights of groups has often been neglected or addressed in only the narrowest fashion. Focusing solely on whether rights are exercised by individuals or groups misses what lies at the heart of ethnocultural conflict, leaving the crucial question unanswered: can the familiar system of common citizenship rights within liberal democracies sufficiently accommodate the legitimate interests of ethnic citizens? Specifically, how does membership in an ethnic group differ from other groups, such as professional, lifestyle, or advocacy groups? How important is ethnicity to personal identity and self-respect, and does accommodating these interests require more than standard citizenship rights? Crucially, what forms of ethnocultural accommodations are consistent with democratic equality, individual freedom, and political stability? Invoking numerous cases studies and addressing the issue of ethnicity from a range of perspectives, Ethnicity and Group Rights seeks to answer these questions.
1. The problem stated and a review of politically applied psychological theory 2. Identification theory - its structure, dynamics and application 3. Nation-building 4. The national identity dynamic and foreign policy 5. Identification and international relations theory 6. Conclusion - appraisal, prescriptions, paradoxes.
1. Self-narratives: true and false Ulric Neisser 2. Literary and psychological models of the self Daniel Albright 3. The remembered self Jerome Bruner 4. Composing protoselves through improvisation Craig R. Barclay 5. Mind, text and society: self-memory in social context Kenneth J. Gergen 6. Personal identity and autobiographical recall Greg J. Niemeyer and April E. Metzler 7. Constructing narrative, emotion, and self in parent-child conversations about the past Robyn Fivush 8. Narrative practices: their role in socialization and self-construction Peggy J. Miller 9. Emotionality and narrative in the emergence of the self-concept Rebecca A. Eder 10. Is memory self-serving? Wilem A. Wagenaar 11. Creative remembering Michael Ross and Roger Buehler 12. The remembered self and the enacted self Alan Baddeley 13. The authenticity and utility of memories Eugene Winograd 14. The remembered self in amnesics William Hirst 15. Perception is to self as memory is to selves Edward S. Reed.
Part I: THE FABRIC OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION. 1. A First Look at Interpersonal Communication. 2. Communication and Personal Identity. 3. Perception and Communication. 4. The World of Words. 5. The World Beyond Words. 6. Mindful Listening. Part II: WEAVING COMMUNICATION INTO RELATIONSHIPS. 7. Emotions and Communication. 8. Communication Climate: The Foundation of Personal Relationships. 9. Managing Conflict in Relationships. 10. Friendships in Our Lives. 11. Committed Romantic Relationships. 12. Communication in Families. Epilogue: Continuing the Conversation. Glossary. References. Index.
Edwin Hartman explores Aristotle's metaphysical assumptions as they illuminate his thought and some issues of current philosophical significance. The author's analysis of the theory of the soul treats such topics of lively debate as ontological primacy, spatio-temporal continuity, personal identity, and the relation between mind and body. Aristotle presents a world populated primarily by individual material objects rather than by their parts or by universals. The author notes that defense of this view requires Aristotle to create the notion of form or essence. A material object, the Philosopher holds, is identical with its particular essence, and is not a combination of form and matter. Most important, a person is a substance and his essence is his soul. Personal identify is therefore bodily identity, and survival consists in bodily continuity. The relation between a state of perceiving and a state of the body is a special case of the weak identity between form and matter.Originally published in 1978.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
PART I - SOUL-SEARCHERS AND SOOTH-SAYERS PART II - EXHORTATIONS TO ENLIGHTENMENT PART III - A SELFLESS PERSON'S SENSE OF SELF APPENDICES TEXTS AND ABBREVIATIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
Introduction 1. The Concept of Memory 2. Personal Identity and Memory 3. Remembering Without Knowing 4. In Defense of the Causal Theory of Memory 5. The Nature of Memory Causation 6. Pastist Externalism about Memory Content 7. In Defense of Pastist Externalism 8. The Authenticity of Memory 9. Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index
1. Seeing whole 2. Ageing and human nature 3. Dementia and personal identity 4. Identity: self and dementia 5. Into the darkness: losing identity with dementia 6. Can the self disintegrate? Personal identity, psychopathology and disunities of consciousness 7. Keeping track, autobiography and the conditions for self erosion 8. The discursive turn, social constructionism and dementia 9. The return of the living dead: agency lost and found? 10. Dementia and the identity of the person 11. Meaning-making in dementia: a hermeneutic perspective 12. I am, thou art: personal identity in dementia 13. Spiritual perspectives on the person with dementia: identity and personhood 14. 'Respectare': moral respect for the lives of the deeply forgetful 15. Understandings of dementia: explanatory models and their implications for the person with dementia and therapeutic effort 16. Personhood and interpersonal communication in dementia 17. From childhood to childhood? Autonomy and dependence through the ages of life 18. Mind, meaning and personhood in dementia: the effects of positioning
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